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The goal of this study is to develop a non-invasive imaging test for in vivo detection of kidney transplant rejection. The hypotheses are that 1) Ferumoxytol-MRI can generate accurate estimates of tissue iron concentrations and tissue macrophages. 2) The signal given by a renal allograft on Ferumoxytol-MRI demonstrates significant differences between rejected and non-rejected transplants.


Clinical Trial Description

In children with kidney transplants, immunologically mediated rejection is the major cause of allograft failure. Thus, the therapeutic success of kidney transplants is highly dependent on the ability to avoid rejection during both the acute and chronic phase after transplantation. Children with kidney transplants currently undergo at least three routine (protocol) biopsies during the first two years after the transplantation in addition to biopsies required to investigate deterioration of kidney function. These biopsies are invasive and nearly always require general anesthesia, causing anxiety and distress of the patients and their parents, as well as significant costs to our health care system. There is currently no non-invasive diagnostic tool capable of detecting rejection in vivo. Thus, the goal of this study is to develop a non-invasive imaging test for in vivo detection of kidney transplant rejection. The investigators propose to accomplish this goal by detecting macrophage infiltration in kidney transplants with iron oxide nanoparticle-enhanced MR imaging. Macrophages play a major role in transplant rejection. CD68-positive macrophages comprise approximately 50% of the infiltrating leukocyte population in renal allograft rejection, they co-localize with areas of tissue-damage and fibrosis, and are preponderant in more severe forms of rejection. The investigators hypothesize that iron oxide nanoparticle-enhanced MR imaging can detect differences in macrophage infiltrations in renal allografts undergoing rejection as opposed to allografts without significant rejection. This hypothesis is based on the bio-physical properties of intravenously injected superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles, which are phagocytosed by tissue macrophages and cause strong signal effects on MR images.

The specific aims of the study are the following:

Aim #1. Technical Development of a Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM)-Sequence for in vivo MRI detection and quantification of iron oxide nanoparticle-labeled macrophages.This aim will focus on the technical development of Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM), a novel MR imaging pulse sequence that will be used to accurately quantify the tissue concentration of free ferumoxytol and ferumoxytol in macrophages in renal allografts. Based on pulse sequence optimizations of phantoms with known concentrations of free and cell-bound iron, we expect to generate accurate estimates of tissue iron concentrations and macrophages with the QSM-MRI method.

Aim #2. Detect rejection in kidney allografts with ferumoxytol-enhanced MRI. The investigators hypothesize that ferumoxytol can detect and quantify macrophages in kidney allografts, based upon the observation that iron oxide nanoparticles can be taken up by macrophages in malignant tumors. The investigators will evaluate the ability of ferumoxytol to map macrophage quantities in renal allografts, with histopathological correlation. We expect significantly higher ferumoxytol-MRI enhancement and macrophage quantities in rejected allografts compared to non-rejected allografts. ;


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NCT number NCT02006108
Study type Interventional
Source Stanford University
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date November 27, 2012
Completion date April 11, 2017

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